Nina, best of luck with your summer job search. I know how time consuming that can be. In my neighborhood the easiest jobs for under 18s to get were at grocery stores as baggers and ice cream scoopers at Cold Stone/Ben&Jerry's/Baskin Robbins.

My local Rite Aid always seemed to hate teenagers. Even when we were customers. If a group of us walked in at the same time they would send security to follow us.

I live in an area where, outside my town, there is one town of similar size about 20 minutes away, and a mall 30 minutes away. So I'm basically stuck in town if I don't want to be spending half my pay checks on gas money. Within town I'm extremely limited. We don't have any of those ice cream places you mentioned. My town is not at a terrible low, but it's not doing fantastically either. Our "main street" is pathetic, 1/3 of the storefronts closed...

nina, speaking of job hunting, I was out shopping today and this guy was going round the mall's shops trying to find a job. I was in H&M and he was looking for a job (but they don't have openings ) then I was aat coffee bean and he was there too! poor guy. hope he gets lucky. I was at McDonald's the other day and this lady with FOUR KIDS!!! was looking for a job too. just for anyone that's interested, interviews are every Wednesday from 2 to 4pm at that branch

Hey, I was in H&M yesterday too.

But yeah, there are so many people looking for jobs, which is why it's so hard for people my age.

I bought a dweeeesss! it's the dwess featured on the spring fashion main page on the h&m website the flowy one in the various earth tones. and a pair of shorts that were on sale. and a shawl to go with the dwess and they had a speshul yesterday so I got a $10 gift card for spending more than $50!

I bought a dweeeesss! it's the dwess featured on the spring fashion main page on the h&m website the flowy one in the various earth tones. and a pair of shorts that were on sale. and a shawl to go with the dwess and they had a speshul yesterday so I got a $10 gift card for spending more than $50!

Nice! Ooh, the dress with the stripe down the middle? I saw that one yesterday.

I bought a dress yesterday too. A prom dress. Except I am totally defying all the horribly lame prom "traditions" and am not really wearing a dressy dress. I got this from Fossil:

All the dressy dresses were too expensive, considering even though I like wearing nice clothing I'm not crazy about dresses. The only cheap dressy ones were the tacky or the slutty ones, so I decided to go for a different style. It was on sale for $50. I figure I can dress it up with accessories.

It disturbs me beyond belief to go to the ATP website and see the headline "Ferrero upsets Hanescu". My beloved Juanqui in such a state that beating Hanescu on clay is considered an upset I cannot accept his not being top class. He was my favorite before Novak. that is all.

It disturbs me beyond belief to go to the ATP website and see the headline "Ferrero upsets Hanescu". My beloved Juanqui in such a state that beating Hanescu on clay is considered an upset I cannot accept his not being top class. He was my favorite before Novak. that is all.

All the dressy dresses were too expensive, considering even though I like wearing nice clothing I'm not crazy about dresses. The only cheap dressy ones were the tacky or the slutty ones, so I decided to go for a different style. It was on sale for $50. I figure I can dress it up with accessories.

eh...shorts to wear at home. they're TOO SHORT AND SCANDALOUS TO WEAR OUTDOORS!!! well, people might, but I certainly don't! the dress..well, californians might wear it for casual occasions but I bought it for a friend's wedding